S.P Sullivan/NJ.comA Bergen County Superior Court judge sentenced Louie Wanko to five years probation in July after Wanko admitted attempting to bribe the Lyndhurst police chief.

LYNDHURST — A Bergen County man was sentenced to five years probation earlier this summer for allegedly attempting to bribe the police chief.

Louie Wanko admitted offering Chief James O'Connor $1,000 in exchange for arrest warrants against a pair of local men he was feuding with, O'Connor told NJ.com.

O'Connor said he was originally contacted in April 2011 by Wanko's son, Beaver, who asked that he meet with his father. O'Connor agreed, and Wanko expressed a desire to have the two men put in jail for a brief period.

He asked that the charges eventually be dropped, but wanted to send a message after the men had "muscled in" on his tarot card reading business, O'Connor said.

O'Connor contacted the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office about the incident, and wore a wire in two subsequent meetings with Wanko, during which he handed over a total of $1,000 in exchange for fake warrants against the men.

He was arrested in May 2011, and later indicted by a grand jury. He received a sentence of five years probation in July, according to state judicial records.